Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? – Elias Canetti
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. – Elias Canetti
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesnt know the bad he might do. – Elias Canetti
Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden…. It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks